"...but the Arabs still couldn't, and didn't, come to grips with the
fact that Israel was not going to accommodate them by disappearing from
the map."

Golda Meir
autobiography.

Aftermath & Analysis

June 5, 2007 will mark forty years since the Six-Day War.
As we approach that anniversary, we can expect Israel’s critics, enemies
and alleged friends, to intensify their demands for Israel to relinquish
and evacuate the “occupied territories”, and help establish
a Palestinian Arab State in their place. That demand often comes with a
promise of recognition and peace with Israel in exchange for a complete
withdrawal. A constant drumbeat of voices, including the Jewish left and
some in the U.S. administration, insist that it is the ‘Israeli occupation’
that is at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Critics claim that continued
‘occupation’ is causing Palestinian anger and despair which
fuels their violence because they have no other option to reclaiming their
‘occupied’ lands.

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